Tourism is an increasingly popular global activity and contributes significantly to the GDP and employment of an … the particular aspect of the economy, which in this case is tourism. Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) is the most … comprehensive way to measure the economic importance of tourism in national economies. This article presents a summary of the study …

The permanent concerns of analysts to determine how accurately the real economic benefits of tourism, not stopping at … that tourism statistics are not comprehensive enough.This is both because they fail to provide a concrete or in respect of … costs incurred by tourists on their own and to some extent to those seeking semi-organized tourism and because the economic …

Handbook of Tourism Economics: Analysis, New Applications and Case Studies provides an up-to-date, concise and readable … coverage of the most important topics in tourism economics. It pays attention to relevant traditional topics in tourism … applications of economic analysis to tourism policy and constructive assessment of contemporary thought about tourism economics …

This paper investigates the determinants of tourism demand in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. We estimate the … demand function in a panel setting using annual data from 1979 to 2005. Results show that tourism arrivals are significantly … servicing a destination, are also found to be significant determinants of tourism demand. …